How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 36 Exploration

The rhizome system spread into the discovered caves, Huogu thought, since he wanted to explore the caves, he might as well explore the other caves as well.

These caves are deep and winding, full of mystery. On the walls of the caves, you can see colorful luminous crystals that look very mysterious.

Of course, this is only true for human beings who are still in the mortal body.

Hogu is no longer human.

"Oh, it turns out that this is the channel where the lava used to flow. The silicon was extracted at high temperature, and then mixed with traces of radioactive elements in the formation."

"The strongest evidence is that the rock wall is composed of pyroxene rich in metal elements..."

Huo Gu, who had analyzed this, was stunned for a while, and it took him a while to react, and he looked at the crystal on the cave wall in horror, as if he was watching a group of evil spirits crawling out of hell.

"Fuck! Is there nuclear radiation in this place?!"

"The rhizome system, thickening the rhizome epidermis of the hole."

Huogu issued an order, and searched for elements like lead in the area covered by the rhizome system, elements that can absorb radiation, and added them to the epidermis of the root of the cave.

After some fuss, the exploration continued, and the rhizome group gradually pushed deeper into the cave.

"Huh? The passage has widened?"

"Don't worry about it, let's go deeper."

The rhizome's in-depth behavior continues, and the situation is completely reversed when first entering. When first entering, the passage was getting narrower and narrower, but now it is getting bigger and bigger.

It seems to have reached the end of the passage, and Hogu can clearly feel the airflow caressing the skin through the rhizome, which means that this place is the outside world, or the inner space is huge enough to form the airflow.

Now Huogu is exploring downwards, which obviously belongs to the latter.

"No way... Could it be that there really is an underground world?!"

The rhizomes spread out of the passage, and Hogu's vision also left the passage, and he saw the scenery at the end of the passage.

Big, indescribably big, with no end in front, no end to the left, no end to the right, and no top above, it's like coming to a ghostly foreign land, the underground hole that Hogu fell into from the sea before, Compared with this, it can only be regarded as a small room at best.

"Hey, how did this come about?"

Huo Gu suspected that he had hallucinations, and the scene he saw now once again exceeded the scope of his knowledge. Theoretically speaking, this kind of environment should be extremely difficult to form, even if conditions are formed, it will be formed after a period of time. The overweight of the upper mass caused the collapse.

But this is obviously not a newly formed underground cavity!

At this time, several other caves have also been explored to the end, which is also an underground cavity, but compared with this one, it seems that an elephant is comparing its size with an ant.

Now there are two choices before Huo Gu, continue to go deeper, and stop here.

"Well... There is no water in these underground cavities. In this case, if the distance continues to extend, the difficulty of transportation will increase."

Different from those rubber pipes of human beings, every part of the biological pipes constructed by cells like Huogu needs water for 'maintenance', that is to say, as the distance of transportation increases, the amount of water transported there will be less .

"The other underground cavities haven't been explored yet. Why don't we suspend the exploration of this super-huge underground space and set up a non-biological pipeline to transport water first, and I can also see what's in the other cavities."

"that is it."

With a determined mind, Hogu shifted his perspective and switched to other underground cavities.

With the awe of the super-giant void before, now these several voids are two to three times larger than the underground void that fell into at first, and they can no longer cause any waves in Hogu's heart.

Compared with the outside, it is very "barren" in the cavity, because there is no liquid water and lava that provides materials, so there are very few bacteria that can grow, and the cost of exploring the rhizome system is so huge.

Huogu soon discovered an embarrassing fact that it ran out of organic materials.

The underground cavity is too large, and the materials that can be collected are too few. In fact, the organic materials should have been exhausted long ago. The reason why they can last for so long is because there are sometimes rhizome debris above, or gourds and titanium snails that are sucked into the whirlpool. Gu recycled these organic materials to survive until now.

"What should I do? Even if the rhizome system grows fast enough, the pace of exploration will be slowed down."

Huo Gu's gaze was focused on the hole where the seawater was gushing out, which was the only channel it knew so far to connect to the ocean above.

"go out?"

"No, no, this is absolutely not possible!"

As soon as the thought came up, it was denied in horror. The psychological shadow caused by the indescribable existence outside could probably cover the entire surface of the planet based on the area.

Huo Gu would not consider appearing in the sight of that kind of guy until he had enough power to contend with him.

"If... it's other creatures, will that guy also attack?"

Huogu came up with such an idea, and it was inspired by the organic raw material 'microbes' that are currently in a state of shortage.

From the very beginning, the unknown guy seemed to be staring at Huogu all the time, while turning a blind eye to the microbes in the ocean.

This shows that it can distinguish the difference between Hogu and other beings, and it is precisely because of this difference that it can turn a blind eye to such targeting Huogu and other creatures.

Thinking about it the other way around is actually quite simple. Hogu can use this to create some creatures with autonomous abilities, let them collect organic materials in the ocean, and then deliver them to the vortex.

Thinking of this, Huogu hesitated, because this is to create real life, not biological tools such as gourds and titanium snails, they will have the concept of "I".

This involves many concerns of Huogu, and it is also why Huogu would rather have a delay in the command than design some real macroscopic creatures with autonomous intelligence.

"Such creatures are designed, can I control their cells like I do now?"

"Are they still following my orders? Will they attack me in turn?"

"Limitation is impossible. Life will always find a way out. If one day, this kind of creature is born with wisdom and knows my existence, what will it think of me?"

"...According to human temperament, it is estimated that God will be hacked to death on the street."

It sounds very far away, but Huogu is already immortal, hundreds of millions of years are just a flick of a finger for him, and the distant problem is actually close at hand.

If you don’t understand it, you can understand it in another way. The summer vacation sounds very long, there are two months. In fact, you will find that it is the last day of the vacation, and the homework has not been done.